Quality assurance guidelines for superficial hyperthermia clinical trials
| Autor: | Nicolleta Lomax, Sergio Curto, Johannes Crezee, S. Abdel-Rahman, Manfred Schmidt, Michael Ehmann, Ulf Lamprecht, Jacek Nadobny, Hana Dobsicek Trefna, Dietmar Marder, A. Bakker, Gerard C. van Rhoon, Paul R. Stauffer, Mark D. Hurwitz, Chris J. Diederich, Josefin Hartmann |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Internationality Infrared Rays media_common.quotation_subject Oncology and Carcinogenesis Superficial hyperthermia Phantoms 030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Germany medicine Hyperthermia Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging Quality (business) Medical physics Maximum size Technical committee Oncology & Carcinogenesis Microwaves Heating criteria Water bolus media_common Clinical Trials as Topic Uniform - quality business.industry Induced Equipment Failure Analysis Equipment Design Quality assurance Health Care Clinical trial superficial Oncology 030220 oncology & carcinogenesis Practice Guidelines as Topic business |
| Zdroj: | Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al], vol 193, iss 5 |
| ISSN: | 1439-099X 0179-7158 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s00066-017-1106-0 |
| Popis: | Quality assurance (QA) guidelines are essential to provide uniform execution of clinical trials with uniform quality hyperthermia treatments. This document outlines the requirements for appropriate QA of all current superficial heating equipment including electromagnetic (radiative and capacitive), ultrasound, and infrared heating techniques. Detailed instructions are provided how to characterize and document the performance of these hyperthermia applicators in order to apply reproducible hyperthermia treatments of uniform high quality. Earlier documents used specific absorption rate (SAR) to define and characterize applicator performance. In these QA guidelines, temperature rise is the leading parameter for characterization of applicator performance. The intention of this approach is that characterization can be achieved with affordable equipment and easy-to-implement procedures. These characteristics are essential to establish for each individual applicator the specific maximum size and depth of tumors that can be heated adequately. The guidelines in this document are supplemented with a second set of guidelines focusing on the clinical application. Both sets of guidelines were developed by the European Society for Hyperthermic Oncology (ESHO) Technical Committee with participation of senior Society of Thermal Medicine (STM) members and members of the Atzelsberg Circle. |
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